The Torre de David in Caracas, Venezuela actually exists. Spoilers for Sunday’s episode within.
This is a photograph of the Torre de David, the real building in Caracas, Venezuela where the fictional Nicholas Brody of Homeland is now living (against his will).
In Sunday's episode, called "Tower of David," a bleeding Brody (Damian Lewis), whom viewers have not seen since the Season 2 finale, is brought to the building by allies of Carrie's. Brody is then tended to by a creepy character named Dr. Graham, played by Erik Todd Dellums. Later in the episode, Dr. Graham tells Brody about the history of the building. "They call it the Tower of David," he says. "Not for King David, heaven forbid. For David Brillembourg, the particularly egomaniacal banker who commissioned it. Unfortunately, before it was completed, David died — and then the whole economy died. Construction stopped. The squatters all moved in. And voila." All of that is factually correct.
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Construction began on the building, which was to be called the Centro Financiero Confinanzas, in 1990.
It was going to be a luxury apartment building with a swimming pool and a helipad on the roof.
Then Brillembourg died of cancer in 1993 at age 56.
